Child Quote by Stacey Abrams

Our students need additional support. They need smaller class sizes. They need tutors. They need after-school programs.

— Miguel Cardona

Let's talk about after-school programs generally. They're supposed to be educational programs, right? And that's what they're supposed to do; they're supposed to help…

— Mick Mulvaney

Quality afterschool programs provide safe, engaging and fun learning experiences to help children and youth develop their social, emotional, physical, cultural and academic skills.

— Debbie Stabenow

Offering universal afterschool and summer programs is a key strategy for prevention and healthy development, and a priority for my Administration.

— Phil Scott

The problem with our education system is not that parents do not have a choice. The problem is that inequities continue to exist.

— Patsy Mink

It is incumbent upon all of us to build communities with the educational opportunities and support systems in place to help our youth become…

— Ruben Hinojosa

I believe there ought to be school choice, so that parents can choose within the public school system.

— Anonymous

Only this much I knew - that under ideal conditions, true education could be imparted only by the parents, and that then there should…

— Anonymous

We know the parental support, community support, makes a difference. It's not just the metrics of testing and putting pressure on the schools and…

— Donna Shalala

There are amazing teachers, but the system doesn't always allow them to address the individual needs of a child.

— Phil Keoghan

There's a perception that's been put out into the marketplace by No Child Left Behind that schools aren't doing enough for kids.

— Mark Jackson

There is a growing acceptance and interest in publicly funded school choice as a catalyst for education reform in general and a way to…

— John T. Walton